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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 27, 2014
Designing strategies for Movement, People Journeying Into, and Coming From, a Place I was walking a corridor, and it was like a dream — blood red, bathed in blood, a journeying into brilliant light. Except that it wasn’t a dream, but rather a walk in an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 14, 2013
Optimizing Experience. In the management of any project, when there is the feeling of all-open creativity, everything’s working, all systems are go, communications are excellent. How does that happen? • First off — the link to the client side. Clear... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Apr 1, 2013
The Book as Sensate Storyteller It’s been said that the book is the most perfectly designed object for “reading.” That is according to earlier conversations with book and type design legend, Bill Hill, typographic theorist and book / tablet reading... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 17, 2012
The sensuality of the book I was working in a remote, private room, the so-called rare book library at Girvin | Seattle. It’s a small space, and in this book room, the volumes start at about a yard from the floor, then rise up to somewhere around 10 feet. People... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Retail | Oct 12, 2012
Matto: A New mix in Shanghai Pizza, made eclectic — divergent materiality and message Matto Bar & Pizzeria: Imagery from Matto | Press section TSG | QUEEN ANNE STUDIOS ….. G I R V I N | RETELLING RETAIL DESIGNING THE STRATEGY OF SELLING : BRAND STORYTELLING... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Sep 7, 2012
These days, the idea of an anniversary is the search for legacy — and there are many that are searching for legacies, threads, reaching back to the soul of earlier years, when another degree of artfulness, more robust storytelling, a new flavoring of history... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Sep 28, 2012
Could it be that FOMO is really tribal disconnection? Ever been proud that you didn’t know what was going on? Been happy that you had no clue about the newest big deal in your community? Pleased that you had no word on the hottest gossip? For some, the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 30, 2011
ROUGH TRADE #3 The Perfume of Refuse, Decomposition and Excrement (The third of three essays on unusual scent strategies) In the beginnings of Das Parfum, authored by Patrick Süskind, there is a grouping of expressions that I’d first read in the original German.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 28, 2011
GALLERY VI | THE STATE OF WOWNESS* SOMETIMES, IT’S LESS ABOUT THE MERE “GO THIS WAY” [OR DON’T] AND MORE TO GO ANOTHER WAY, SCENE, SEEN, BEAUTY, TOUCHED. ARTFULLY, THIS PATH. AS A LONG RUNNING DESIGNER OF SHOPFRONTS, SIGNING SYSTEMS, LOOKING AT... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 25, 2011
THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IF I’M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY, THE WALKING ROUTE — IT’S LIKE A LONG STRIDE TO THE SOMETHING THAT LIES AT THE END. THERE’S A RHYTHM, A SEQUENCING OF PILLARS THAT MARK THE TIME. STEP BY STEP. LOOKING UP, IT’S STEEP,... Read More
